Improvement in milking-pails



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SPRINGER, OF BRADY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT m MILKING-PAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,731, dated April 8, 1873; application filed August 7, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SPRINGER, of the township of Brady, in the county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milking-Pails, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section, and Fig. 2 a detail.

My invention consists in providing a milkpail with a retaining receptacle, into which the operator can milk without spattering, said receptacle being connected with the pail by a spout.

In the drawing, A represents a pail, and B a pover forthe same, constructed in any suitable'manner, but strong enough for the purpose for which they are designed. a represents the handle and bail; b, a spout, permanently connected to the bail; 0, another spout fitting intob. To the upper end of c is permanently secured a receptacle, d, the bottom 'of'which, e, is concave. I attach the upper end of the tube 0 to the bottom of the receptacle d, as far as possible from the center thereof, so that when in use there will be a little milk, together with the froth usually made in milking, remaining in the receptacle ol to prevent spattering. Over the opening from 01 into the spout c I place a coarse strainer, f, which may be made removable, or may be permanently fastened to d. The receptacle cl can be raised or lowered at pleasure.

In use the operator sits upon B and milks into thereceptacle d, from which the milk constantly flows into the pail A. The milk can be strained from the pail by removing the receptacle d and spout cand placing a strainer over the end of b, or by pouring milk into a strainer in the usual manner.

What I claim as new is as follows:

The receptacle 01, when provided with a bottom, 0, constructed to retain sufficient milk to prevent spat tering,incombination with a spout, 0, located at the side, substantially as specified.

HENRY SPRINGER.

Witnesses:

I. M. FLINT, J. R. KING. 

